please tell me how do u convert a hex number 0xFEB8 to decimal. the actual answer is -328.but i dont know how it is done.
hi there chetan.but in the book "exam cram" pg 43 its given: DECIMAL HEX 343 0x157 275 0x0113 -328 0xFEB8 the first two i can understand but the last one differs from your answer.please help. [This message has been edited by kishen uchil (edited August 30, 2000).]
chetan nain
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remember the folln table: DecimalBinaryOctalHexadecimal 00000000 10000111 20001022 30001133 40010044 50010155 60011066 70011177 801000108 901001119 100101012A 110101113B 120110014C 130110115D 140111016E 150111117F 16100002010 ���� ���� ���� Conversion of hex to dec: your example: 0xFEB8 F*(16^3)+ E*(16^2) + B*(16^1) + 8*(10^0) lookup of hex values F,E,B in above table yields 17,16 and 11 resp. substituting, 17*(16^3)+ 16*(16^2) + 11*(16^1) + 8*(10^0) answer:65208 HTH, chetan
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hi there chetan.but in the book "exam cram" pg 43 its given: DECIMAL HEX 343 0x157 275 0x0113 -328 0xFEB8 the first two i can understand but the last one differs from your answer.please help.
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you may try it : System.out.println(0xFEB8); gives 65208 am i missing something here?
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-328 when converted to hex in windows calculator gives FFFFFEB8. So it might be due to the negative sign. please check it out. It may be 2's complement, 1's complement or something similar to that, I am not sure.
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hi there chetan.im sorry man u were right.actually -328 equates to 0xfffffeb8 in hex .the book was wrong.thanks very much for the help.
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